Our programs, students, alumni, faculty and staff are often quoted or featured in local, regional and national media. Read below for what they've had to say...

UW-Madison's Laura Minero was featured in a story from the Wisconsin State Journal about the Trump administration's plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and what that means for her work, research and sense of security. Minero is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education's Department of Counseling Psychology.

UW-Madison's Julie Underwood has published her latest "Under the Law" column for the September issue of Kappan magazine examining several recent Supreme Court cases that will affect K-12 education. Underwood is the Susan Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy, and Practice at UW-Madison, and the former dean of the School of Education. The court cases Underwood covers touch on many important issues facing K-12 education, such as special education, free speech and gender equity.

School of Education alumna Dee Willems was recently featured in the fall issue of On Wisconsin magazine, the UW-Madison alumni publication. Willems became the UW Marching Band’s first woman drum major in 1989. “I figured if it was going to happen eventually, it might as well be me,” says Willems. Willems earned her undergraduate degree in Spanish Education in 1990 and a master’s from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 1996. On Wisconsin reports that Willems today teaches middle-school Spanish in Wisconsin Rapids.

The cover story for the Sept. 4, 2017, print edition of Time magazine is headlined, "How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry.” The article explains: “Across the nation, kids of all skill levels, in virtually every team sport, are getting swept up by a youth-sports economy that increasingly resembles the pros at increasingly early ages." Not only is the financial cost to parents high, but there are also potential health concerns. Time explains: "In a study published in the May issue of American Journal of Sports Medicine, University of Wisconsin researchers found that young athletes who participated in their primary sport for more than eight months in a year were more likely to report overuse injuries.” That study was led by several researchers with ties to the School of Education's Department of Kinesiology.

UW-Madison alumna Susan Solie Patterson and her husband James Patterson, the award-winning and best-selling mystery and children's book author, appeared on NBC’s the “Today Show” Tuesday morning to talk about their new book for children, "Big Words for Little Geniuses." Susan Solie Patterson, an alumna of the School of Education's Art Department, said "Ever since I got my master of fine arts degree from Wisconsin, I’ve wanted to write a children’s book.”

UW-Madison’s Kathleen Horning recently spoke with Indian Country Today for a report that examines the lack of Native representation in children’s books. Horning is director of the School of Education's Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), which conducts an annual study on the amount of diversity, and lack thereof, in children's books.

The Christian Science Monitor recently published an article that puts the spotlight on a range of success stories that have come out of the Northport Apartments, a Section 8 housing development on Madison’s East Side. Among the people interviewed for the report is UW-Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings, who holds the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education.

The Atlantic earlier this month posted a report headlined, “Why Men Are the New College Minority." And among the experts the publication reached out to in an effort to put this nuanced topic in perspective is Jerlando Jackson, UW-Madison's Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. Jackson is a faculty member with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and is the director and chief research scientist at Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory.

The work of UW-Madison's Robert Enright, who has pioneered the study of forgiveness in locations across the globe for three decades, was recently featured in an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Enright is a a professor with the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Educational Psychology.

Education Dive earlier this month posted an interesting report headlined, “Nearly half of prospective college students don’t expect to graduate.” And among the experts EducationDive.com turns to in an effort to put this topic in perspective is Jerlando Jackson, UW-Madison’s Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education.